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Leonta, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Franklin town. It lies in ZIP code area 13775. It stands on Treadwell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

Leonta within Delaware County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Leonta, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Leonta, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

84 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Leonta between 2001 and 2018, burning about 80 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Debris and open burning17
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 July 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 June 2018Debris and open burning1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Leonta: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Natural Gas. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Franklin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
M.Hazlett No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasProspect

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leonta in 2 storm reports in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2023Thunderstorm WindLeonta$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
December 2023Flash FloodLeonta$2,000NY Route 357 is flooded near Sidney Center.

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Franklin2.4 miles16
Brooklyn2.5 miles16
North Franklin3.2 miles18
Bartlett Hollow4.0 miles16
Treadwell4.2 miles15
West Meredith5.6 miles15
Arabia5.6 miles15
East Sidney5.9 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122598061The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 955218. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.